As promised, I got this photo from Walt. It is the
Yellowfin Tuna that got bit by a 15 foot Oceanic White
Tipped Shark. The head weighed in at 35 lbs. On a
Yellowfin Tuna, the head is approximately one third of
the total weight. So this fish should have been about
a hundred pounds. Another reason not to go swimming
offshore near Kwajalein. The divers that like to dive
in with the sharks gotta be insane!
Les
Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
Central Pacific
PS: We got enough meat from this head to feed a small
party with sashimi.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Leslie Saulibio
> To: fishingtheusaandcanada@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:45 PM
> Subject: [fishingtheusaandcanada] Kwajalein
> Fishing Report: Sunday, March 2, 2008
>
>
> Aloha Gang,
>
> Went fishing Sunday afternoon with 3 other guys:
> Scott Phillips (EOD), Jerrod English and Preston
> Page
> (Radars), and a teenager by the name of Blake
> Sudderth. I do like to take kids fishing. Blake
> kept
> up a running commentary on everything and anything
> the
> whole five hour trip. But it was fun having him
> along
> and he's good luck to have on the boat. We rented
> a
> 21 foot Mako with twin Yamaha 115 four strokes and
> rigged up with 3 rods and reels ( Scott's 80 TW
> Penn
> International on a custom made shorty fast taper
> pole
> loaded with 700 yds 130 lb test line, my Shimano
> 50 TW
> on a custom short pole loaded with 800 yds 200 lb
> test
> Power Pro Super Braided line, and Jerrod's Penn
> International 70 on a Tuna Stick), and two 125 ft
> handlines. All the reels are two speeds. We didn't
> take the outriggers, just didn't think about it.
> Anyway, we headed out the small boat marina in the
> after noon and through SAR Pass ten minutes later
> and
> put out all five lines. First thing we ran into
> was
> hundreds of Spinner Dolphins, racing with the boat
> and
> jumping out of the water. Bet they scared every
> fish
> away! So, we got no bites until we left the huge
> pod
> of hundreds of seagoing mammals. An hour into
> fishing, we got our first hit, off my rod that we
> had
> put in the rod holder behind the console. Being
> right
> behind my back, the screaming reel scared the holy
> bejesus outa me! anyway, blake cranked the guy in.
>
> It took him a while because he had put that one
> 300
> yards back and set the drag lightly. He had to
> crank
> in over 400 yds of line. The Wahoo weighed 34 lbs.
> A
> half out later, we had a tripple strike, two reels
> and
> a handline. Two fish came off, and we boated a 20
> +
> Wahoo. One of the fish that came off was a Wahoo
> that
> was bigger that the first one. We continued up the
> reef and had a marlin strike the handlined lure.
> sure
> glad we avoided that one! Didn't want to hassle
> with
> a Marlin that day. An hour later we had a double
> and
> boated 2 more Wahoo. We also hit several bird
> piles
> feeding on something, but there were no bites. We
> got
> to the northern most limit area, Taruj island and
> turn
> out to head back to SAR Pass. On the way back down
> the reef, we three more Wahoo of around 20 lbs
> each,
> and a rainbow runner, 10 lbs. By the time we went
> back to the small boat marina, we had 7 fish (140+
> lbs) iced down and ready for a cold one. We met
> Walter Erb there also, and he had 150 qt cooler
> ful
> also, with mahi, Wahoo, Yellowfin Tuna (20 lb'ers)
> and
> a Yellowfin Tuna head that weighed in at 36 lbs.
> He
> said a huge Oceanic White Tip Shark ate him. The
> tuna
> would have weight over 100lbs intact. I don't have
> any photos but if I get them from the other guys,
> I
> will pass it along to you guys.
>
> Aloha,
>
> Les
>
>
>
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